Charles Bayes Peacock

Military

Assigned to 335BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 6-Sep-43 in B-17 42-30271 'Bomb Boogie'. Killed In Service - Evaded but actually died from hunger and exposure in Pyrenees Mountains at the end of Oct-43. Killed in Action (KIA)



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 95th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: BomBoogie
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron

Missions

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Brookside, NJ 22 May 1914 Son of Stanley Graham and Marie [Bayes] Peacock.

Enlisted

Newark, NJ 22 June 1942 Newark, New Jersey

Other

Evaded (EVD)

Sth France 6 September 1943 - 30 October 1943 Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 4230271 'Bomb Boogie'. Evaded [EVD].

Died

Pyrenees, 25586, Lleida, Spain 30 October 1943 Killed In Service - EVD but actually died from hunger & exposure in Pyrenees Mountains end of October 43.

Buried

Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial Tablets of the Missing Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France.

Based

Horham 6 September 1943 Newark, New Jersey

Revisions

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Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 545 / MACR 545, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey p. 167 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database